What does the sparrow symbolize?

The cultural meanings of the sparrow are diverse, symbolizing "lack of ambition" and "greed for pleasure" as well as "hard work" and "freedom". ". Since the Bronze Age, the sparrow has been regarded as a symbol of "Jennifer".

1, sparrow symbolizes "no ambition", "greedy for comfort", "short-sighted".

According to the "Strategies of the Warring States", the Chu minister Zhuang Xin once used the sparrow does not know that there is always danger as an example, satirizing King Xiang of Chu does not want to make progress.

Zhuang Xin said: "The sparrow is a white grain, and the sparrow is a tree, and the sparrow thinks it is free from danger, and there is no competition with others. I do not know that the princes and kings, the left holds the bomb, the right ingests the pill, will be added to their own in ten feet above the class for the recruitment. He traveled by day to a thick tree and by night to an acidic oligosaccharide. In a short time, he fell into the hands of a prince."

Translation: Zhuang Xin said, "Pecking downward at grains of rice, perching upward on a tree, and spreading its wings to fly, it thought that there was no disaster for itself, and it did not compete with any other. But he did not realize that the king, the grandson, the son of a king, holding a slingshot in his left hand, pressing a pellet into his right hand, and pulling the bowstring taut to shoot at it from a great height, was making the neck of the yellow finch the target of the slingshot. In the daytime it was still roaming in the trees, but at night it was made into a dish with an acidic octopus ingredient. In a moment it fell into the hands of the male. "

The Lüshi Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi) also has a fable: "Swallowing sparrows under one roof, children and mothers feeding each other, yawning and enjoying each other, and thinking that they are at peace. When the stove burst into flames and the building was about to be burned, the swallows and finches remained unchanged, unaware of the disaster that was about to befall them."

Translation: The swallows and sparrows were fighting for a good place to build their nests under the eaves of the house, and the mother bird was nursing her young, and both of them were joyful and pleased with themselves, thinking that they were safe and sound. But the chimney of the stove cracked, and the fire sprang out and burned the beams of the house upward; but the swallows and the sparrows were at ease, because they did not know that calamity was coming upon them.

2. The sparrow symbolizes auspiciousness.

Chenliu Jiexu biography: "Groom Wei Shang, Gao Di (Han Gaozu), when he was too much history, guilty of the Department of imperial prisons. There were ten thousand finches on the thorn trees of the prison, patting their wings and singing. Shang said: 'the sparrow is the auspiciousness of the Lord's life, its song that is also restored, I will be reinstated to the official.' A short while later, the edict returned the former official."

Translation: Wei Shang, an official in charge of horse breeding and grazing, was a historian during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, and was imprisoned for a crime. There were many sparrows gathering on the thorn trees outside the imperial prison, flapping their wings and chirping. Wei Shang divined the situation and said, 'The sparrow, symbolizing the Jennifer, is a representative of good fortune, and its repeated chirping means that I will be reinstated in my official position.' Soon, there was indeed an edict (诏书) ordering his reinstatement.

3. The sparrow symbolizes the Jenn, and the Jenn and the sparrow are connected to each other, signifying the reinstatement of the official.

Jue is an ancient wine and ceremonial vessels, popular in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, mostly bronze jue, because only the nobility can use, so it represents the noble status, ancient senior officials have a title or title.

The earliest Jennings were hieroglyphic characters, in the form of a human hand holding a wine glass. Later, it became an ideogram, with sacrificial wine on the lower left, a human hand on the lower right, and a bird-like glyph in the upper center. According to Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining and Analysing Characters), the character for bird on top symbolizes a sparrow, and therefore the sound of sparrow is also taken for jue (爵). Because of the bird song "harmonious music", harmonic "festival", for the meaning of moderation of drinking, so use the bird shape, as a reminder of people drinking alcohol do not want to be greedy.

Modern scholars believe that the Jade sparrow is connected because of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, some of the Jade on the bird decoration. The former is interpreted in terms of the text, the latter in terms of the shape of the vessel, and the former is more reasonable and is generally recognized.

Expanded Information

The historical origin of the Jade Sparrow Connection and the Sparrow Representing Jade:

The use of a sparrow as a Jade is a cultural symbol that appeared very early. In the Han Dynasty, this symbol often appears in the portrait stone, bronze "money tree" and lamp post. Such as the Han dynasty portrait stone there is a special pattern, called "shooting birds under the tree". Picture composition is often a large tree, the tree has a bird set in the branches of the tree, there are monkeys climbing, under the tree there is a horse, there is a bow for shooting birds monkey-like shooter.

The symbolism of this pattern, some people understand that Houyi shoot the sun, and some people understand that Yangyuji shoot apes. But both of these statements are difficult to justify, birds and monkeys at the same time in the tree, there must be its special symbolism. Some scholars believe that this kind of image, its meaning is "shoot the Lord shoot Hou".

The bird on the tree is a sparrow, representing the title, "monkey" and "marquis" resonance, symbolizing the marquis, under the tree there is a horse, symbolizing "immediately marquis". Moreover, the tree on the picture should be a laurel tree, symbolizing wealth. The reason why this pattern was popular in the Han Dynasty, because people have long accepted the idea of the Jade sparrow, monkey and marquis. Most of the "money trees" and bronze lamps of the Han Dynasty are also a combination of these three objects.

Phoenix - Sparrow's multiple symbols: sometimes on behalf of greedy enjoyment, sometimes implying that the officials into the title